The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-03-04
SONGS or THE TIMES.
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as was General Grant. Did you ever
think, good reader, that out of seven
notes are built all the songs that have
ever been sung? New songs by the
score are written every day in the
year, but the seven little notes, warp
ed, twisted, and tantalized, repeated
and worked in combination, over and
over, must furnish all the alleged mel
odies.
"Is there any such element as
originality in a song today" asked
a Mail man of a professor of music.
Certainly. The old masters CLEAN
ed the field with great thoroughness,
but there are men toiling to-day and
doing splendid work with the seven
notes."
"Is there not more plagiarism than
originality In the common run OF po-
pular songs?"
"Yes, / think there is. You have
heard Joe Emmett sing Love of the
Shamrock it is q musty and venera-
BILE Church hymn revived and revamp-
ed. Byron's words;
Maid OF Athens, ere we part,
Give. o, give me back my heart,
were set to a tune which will outlive
the centuries. You hear the melody
now in when the Robins Nest Again
Krohn, a famous German song writer,
produced The Cavaliers Whisper,
and copyrighted it. The copyright
having expired, alongcomes the actor,
w. j. Scanlan, and Incorporates it in
Peek.a-boo, I'm onto you,
see you hiding there.
Three years ago that old chestnutty
air took the country by storm. Scan
Ian, OF course, sings it in faster time
by making eight notes out of quarter.
Twenty years ago, an English song
writer produced:
There was a young man on the flying
trapeze,
His movements were graceful, the girls he
did please.
"In 'Adonis' Dixey revives THE Fly
ing Trapeze' in It's English, You
Know But here is an instance Of
positive profanation; Mendelssohn's
magnificent oratorio of st. Paul has
a chorus entitled How lovely are the
Messengers The man who wrote Bill
lee Taylor revives the music OF chat
in All on Account of Eliza
"What proportion of the ballads OF
the day are thefts?"
cover half of them. AsupeT bfuner-
al march by Chopin is now heard in
Somebody's Coming When the Dew
Drops FALL TO the Blue Bells of
Scotland music you are requested to
wait Till the Clouds Roll By The
chorus of Americas Emblem is stol-
en- from Ira d. Sankey's Pull for the
Shore Claribel's You and / is now
doing duty as Twinkle, Little Stars
'ln 1864 | was in New York, and
going one night into the Tammany
Theatre, / heard Dan Bryant sing
Shoe Fly The refrain was:
Shoe fly, don't bodder me,
For | belong to Company G..
'1n two weeks every street arab
was singing or whistling Shoe Fly:
Ifeel, / feel, / feel,
That's what my mother said;
The angels pouring 'lasses down
Upon dis darky's head.
1.-TWO months later the country was
delirious over this flimsy ballad. Six
months later it was dead. From
1861 to 1865 When This Cruel War
is over was sung in every home north
and south. 1t crossed the ocean and
became popular in England:
Dearest love, do you remember,
When we last did meet;
How you told me that youloved me,
Kneeling at my feet?
"The melody into which those words
were welded was written ten years be-
fore the war. A young music teacher
in Brooklyn visited Greenwood Gene
terry one day, and upon his return jot-
ted down the notes to a little song
which he entitled: Darling, Meet Ne
I'm the Greenwood The modest fell
low, after writing the music and cho-
rus, placed the manuscript in his desk
where it remained for seven years. In
1861, while looking Q some old pa
pers, he found the Greenwood song,
and soon had it on the market as
Dearest Love Do You Remember
or, when This Cruel War is over.
Talk about successl 1t sold faster
than Shoe Fly and remained a fa-
vorite for five years.
What did tho composer realize out
of it?"
Every little, I am sorry to say. He
died in Brooklyn, poor, about ten
years ago. His name was Henry
Tucker. He also wrote 'Genevieve'
and other sweet ballads. He was all
music, poor fellow, and up to a week
or SO before his death would sit at a
piano and try to sing, with his cracked
and p~laintive falsette tones"
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